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Essay: John Berger and Susan Sontag “Ways of Seeing”: Photography Images Essay 
Revised Paper of 4-5 pgs. 1250 words (not including the Works Cited page) and include a Works Cited that lists sources used including Berger and/or Sontag and the photograph(s) you use as discussed in class.


Although John Berger in his essay “Ways of Seeing” is more focused on the question of whether or not photography is art (a question he also considers and rejects in his essay "Understanding a Photograph") than Susan Sontag is in her essay “In Plato’s Cave,” they both wrestle with this idea and with the idea of photography’s relationship to reality and time. Both would seem to agree that photography has changed the way we see and even experience the world with Sontag going so far as to suggest that “Today everything exists to end in a photograph” (24). Berger, too, seems to claim great power for photography’s affect on life saying that “Every photograph is in fact a means of testing, confirming, and constructing a total view of reality. Hence, the crucial role of photography in ideological struggle.” (294)

Choose one writer (Sontag or Berger) and write an essay in which you discuss way(s) in which Berger or Sontag claim photography has changed our “ways of seeing (and, perhaps, experiencing) the world. Name/describe at least two significant ways the writer says photography has changed the way we see or experience the world and discuss whether you agree or disagree with what he/she says and why. You must, of course, quote from the text(s) in order to illustrate and support your claim(s). You can also use your experience with the photograph you chose in the museum to illustrate and support your claim(s) or position.
 

 
 
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